condescend

Etymology
From, from , from , from + , present active infinitive of ; see descend.

Verb

 * 1)  To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
 * 2)  To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
 * 3)  To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
 * 4)  To consent, agree.
 * 5)  To come down.
 * 1)  To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
 * 2)  To consent, agree.
 * 3)  To come down.
 * 1)  To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
 * 2)  To consent, agree.
 * 3)  To come down.
 * 1)  To consent, agree.
 * 2)  To come down.
 * 1)  To come down.
 * 1)  To come down.
 * 1)  To come down.
 * 1)  To come down.

Usage notes

 * "Condescend" is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
 * In sense “to talk down”, the derived participial adjective (and corresponding adverb ) are more common than the verb itself.
 * In older usage, "condescend" could be used non-pejoratively (in a sense similar to that of treating someone as inferior) to describe the action of those who socialized in a friendly way with their social inferiors. Now that the concept of social inferiors has largely fallen out of currency, so has this non-pejorative sense. Thus, in Pride_and_Prejudice, a character could say of another, "I need not say you will be delighted with her. She is all affability and condescension.”

Translations

 * Belarusian: удастоіць, удастойваць
 * Bulgarian: благоволявам
 * Czech: snížit se
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , , , , , ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: спу́шти, спу́шта, благо́воли
 * Maori: tapatu
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: bevärdiga


 * Czech: povyšovat se, vyvyšovat se
 * Dutch: neerbuigend behandelen,
 * German:, herablassend behandeln
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, , leereszkedve/leereszkedően/leereszkedőleg beszél/kezel
 * Italian:


 * Czech:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Macedonian: се со́гласи
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: